Can my computer run this game?

Don't want to buy it only to find out I can't play it

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Ok, I've got a 1 year old laptop with a 2.5 ghz Intel core 2 Duo processor, and 4GB of ram, unfortunately it only has an on board graphics card.  I recently bought Neverwinter Nights 2 and I can't run it without it throwing a graphics error so I'm wondering if anyone has any expereince running SINS without the recommended 128mb graphics card and how that's worked for you?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I honestly don't have any experience with running the game on an integrated chip, but you can try the demo (Fileplanet or Filefront host it). If that works, the game will work. The demo is from a pretty old build, and I'd say performance has increased considerably since then as IC had the opportunity to optimize the engine. ;)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

What card do you have?

 

An Intel gma 950 can run this (the infamous '945gm' (or 945g)) on lower settings, higher resolutions.

 

To find out what you have, (vista) (if you don't have vista, hold down the windows logo key on your keyboard, the  the 'r' key, for the run box)

click on start (the lower left (huge) windows logo).

and type "dxdiag"

click "yes" or "no" if a dialog box shows up (the driver check - kinda useless)

Click the display tab.

 

And it's under:

Name or Chiptype (translating from deutsch here).

 

If you have it, post it here.

 

(We know the official specs list a nvidia 6+++ or ati radeon ++++++ card, but in reality, intel, and some other integrated chipsets do fine, rts games are just a little more forgiving compared to fps games in favors of graphics)

 

 

Thanks!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I'm willing to bet your system will run the game just fine.

Most systems will lag with a very large fleet when zooming in onto them, even with 256 RAM graphics cards.

 

I have a Dell Vostro 1000 with 1Gb of RAM and 128 mb of graphics. Yes, the card is also integrated. SINS works fine on my system, with the settings being on high, and ship details on "highest". Game runs without any lag, but once the map gets big (over 60 planets) or I zoom in on a very large fleet, the game will lag. However, it's never been unplayable. It's been on the edge of unplayable only once though, and that was when I was playing a 5 star system with over 100 planets (I think I picked the biggest map available)... The reason that such a new game is more friendly to old systems is that the game does not display the same amount of graphical effects as for example a first-person shooter would. In such games, the entire vicinity moves, but in SINS, the only things are ships and planets, the background is just a very large desktop background to put it like that.

However, this all changes when taking in account what kind of OS you are running. If you are runing XP, your 4 Gb's of RAM will laugh at the game, but if you are running Vista, things get different. I am running XP...

Go get the game, my system is at least 2 years old, yours will be running this without any problem. But just to be sure, try to get your hands on a demo first to see if you like the game :)